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(No'ModL) A. E. GARDNER.

BUTTON DISPLAY BOARD.

No. 414,515 Patented Nov. 5, 1889."

Tizpa m X Tuqi NITE STATES PATENT FFICE;

ADDISON ELY GARDNER, OF MILAN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROTH. SllU-XZEY, FRANK STEVENS, AND ALBERT HAYDEN, OF SAME PLAEE.

BUTTON-=DISPLAY BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,515, dated November 5, 1889. Application filed November 10,1888. Serial No. 290,475. (No model-l To aZZ whom it may concern: the shoulder 1), formed within the perfora- I'ieit known that I, ADDISON ELY GARDNER, tions.

a citizen of the United States, residing at The arm is provided at its inner end with Milan, in the county of Washtenaw and State a hook (I of suitable shape to engage the eye of Michigan, have invented certain new and of the button which it is desired to secure in 5 5 useful Improvements in Button Display position. The tension of this spring tends to Boards, of which the following is a specifieanormally retract the hook (Z.

tion, reference being had therein to the ac- In practice, the parts being arranged sub companying drawings. stantially as described, with the specific con- IO This invention relates to new and useful struction of spring shown in Fig. 2, they are 60 improvements in button-display boards; and intended to operate as follows: A displaythe invention consists in the peculiar 0011- board of suitable size (and provided with a struction, arrangement, and combination. of requisite number of perforations B) being the spring attaching device for holding the formed, the springs E are inserted into the buttons in their positions on the board, so back of the perforations with their lower 6 5 that, while they are firmly held in their posiends abutting against the shoulder h, and

tions, they may be suitably withdrawn to althe lower coil of this spring is made of low of the inspection of the under side of the suitably large diameter to hold it from acbutton and of attaching and detaching the cidental displacementwhen forced into the buttons with little trouble, all as more fully perforations. The hook (I is in the position 70 hereinafter described. 4 shown in Fig. 3 at a suitable distance from In the present state of the art buttons are the face of the board, so that pressure and usually attached to display-boards bysewing collapse of'the spring is necessary to cause it them upon a suitable fabric secured thereon. to pass through the aperture 15. To engage This construction requires considerable labor a button. upon this arm of the spring, the op- 75 and does not permit of the ready inspection erator compresses the spring E, so that the of the buttons without detaching them from hook (I will protrude sufficiently to allow of the board, and in order to replace them rethe engagement thereon of the button, either quires that they shouldbe again sewed into through the shank or the eye of the button,

0 their positions. I v as may be desired. The tension of the spring 80 In the drawings which accompany this when released will then draw the button and specification, Figure l is a front elevation of tightly seat it against the face of the board. the button-display board to which my device By a suitable pull upon the button it maybe is attached. Fig. 2 is a vertical crosssection drawn out suiiiciently to allow of the inspee- 3 5 thereof on line X X. Fig. 3 is a similar section of the shank or eye without detaching it. 8 5

tion showing the buttons detached. Fig. a It is obvious that many different construcis a similar section showing the modifications of spring may be used to retain the tions of the spring, and Fig. 5 is a perspecbutton in its position, as shown. For intive view of one of the spiral springs detached. stance, in Fig. & are shown two modifications 40 A is a display-board of any suitable conof the spring which will accomplish the same 9c struction, preferably of wood, and provided purpose. The spring F in Fig. at is shown of with a series of perforations B, which prefsuitable shape to engage into a button which erably are arranged in rows to give an orderly is not provided with a shank.

appearance to the buttons O to be displayed. The essential element of my invention con- Upon the back face D of this displaysists in providing the perforated board with 5 board I attach a spring-connection E, prefera spring havin an arm adapted to engage ably of the following construction: with the shank or eye of the button and a is a conical solenoid, having its coils of a normally hold it to its seat upon the board. suitable diameter to enter the perforations in What I claim as my invention is- 5c the board and with its lower coils resting upon 1. In a device for the purpose described, ICO

an apertured board, combined with a spring Working in an aperture in said board,With an arm having a hooked end extending through the aperture to detachably engage with a button or its shank, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the kind described, a board provided with perforations 13, having the shoulders I), and the spiral spring 1*),havin g the arm 0, norm ally retracted and adapted to engage into the button, substantially as described.

In a device of the kind described, a board A, provided with the perforations B,

having the shoulder Z), the coil-spring having its inner coil of larger diameter thanthe perforation'B and provided with the arm 0, normally retracted, and' hook (Z, adapted to engage With the button or its shank, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aihx my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 29th day of October, 1888.

, ADDISON ELY GARDNER. lVitnesses:

P. M. HALBERT,

ED. MCBREARTY. 

